For better or worse, one of the desktops in my homelab needed a new installation of the OS but could not read the bootable USB containing Ubuntu Server 24.04. I decided to take this opportunity to get some experience to install Ubuntu Server with using the netboot tarball image instead. This post documents the steps of how I managed to do it.| Technical Scratchpad
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was not easy and I was …| Louwrentius
So after I set up my VLANs, it| astrid.tech
The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (aka DaRT) is a powerful toolset that is available to Software Assurance customers. Johan Arwidmark recently wrote a post called Back to Basics – Reset the Windows 10 Admin Password using DaRT that covers the steps for creating the recovery media. The DaRT Recovery Image Wizard will generate a…| Mike's Tech Blog
Chainload GRUB 2 from GRUB 2 2021-11-27, 00:00 en GRUB Boot PXE I recently needed to set up a PC to dual boot Windows and Linux. Legacy BIOS, no UEFI. Unfortunately Windows likes to do Windows things and override the first-stage GRUB bootloader in the MBR with its own, and thereafter booting…| s3lph.me
Generally when someone wants to install a Linux distro they start with an ISO| sthbrx.github.io